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Water pretty coloured and browns very careful. Deep nymph on short line. All fish returned.

3 Trout

A colder day than expected, not much in the way of fly life seen and just a couple of rises all day. 3 grayling and 2 trout caught on a gold head PTN fishing New Zealand style. My fist time on the stretch of river and will definitely be back later in the season when the fish will hopefully be looking up!

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

Well, after having a cracking day earlier in the week on the Lugg was hoping for a half decent day on the Monnow!! Beautiful weather 12 degrees and a good amount of LDO's coming off the water between 12-2pm, water levels perfect and gin clear, great! I know the Monnow well and who was I trying to kid , one 8 inch grayling to hand one lost and two brownies both over 2lb lost and that was all the action for 4 hrs fishing.. oh well April will be a different story

1 Grayling

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1 Trout

The river was to high for a novice like me but a nice day anyway. Also saw a pair of Goosanders.

7 x grayling 6-8 inches, on nymphs. A day of small things and very cold. However, a few large dark olives came off after lunch and I saw the first rising trout of the year.

7 Grayling

River starting to rise and getting coloured. Only fished from 12 till 15:00. 2 trout on nymphs.

2 Trout

11 x grayling 6-14 inches, 4 x out of season trout 12-15 inches, nymphs on French Leader. A grayling day near home for a change. The water is still extremely low, so I reached the end of the beat by 2.30, just doing the deeper parts. The grayling were mostly shots, but a couple of nice ones. Has anybody else noticed how remarkably blue/lilac the shining flanks of Monnow grayling are, compared with fish from the Wye, Irfon or any other tributary? Of the out of season trout, the three larger ones were stock fish, presumably from the Tregate Anglers water below. Nice looking fish, but blue dye spots on the belly removed any possible doubt.

11 Grayling

Low water, sunny sky,... most of the graylings pretty small.

7 Trout, 20 Grayling

Wonderful stretch of the Monnow. Water level very low and I didn't see a single fish move all day. But this beat will go on my list of favourite places to fish, despite the landowner doing all he can to restrict access to the river.